"This thing is a cannon?" For the first time, I noticed that Wu Luzhen's eyes were comparable to those of Huanzhugege, "That, can it be fired?" ”

"Nonsense, the one that doesn't make a sound is called a water basket." He Laobatong, the former head of the Zhongxing Mine blasting squad and the current acting artillery captain of the Insurance Corps of the Jinan Chamber of Commerce, laughed at the top students of the Japanese Lu Shi with a disdainful face. "No matter how much you guarantee, at a distance of 200 meters, you can hit wherever you want. If you put the Heavenly Maiden scattered flower thunder, then within 500 meters, you can hit that, that, and wherever you want. ”

"Cut." Wu Luzhen is already familiar with Du Zicheng and them, and even some of my usual styles have been learned. "But if it's hidden, this thing is lightweight, and it can really be useful if it's taken by surprise."

"The boss said, this is called a conscienceless cannon, which specializes in hitting those who have no conscience, and if one shot goes down, there will be no living creatures within thirty steps, and it will be difficult to have an opponent within fifty steps. But after all, it is an earthen cannon, and it can't be used to bombard the marching artillery of foreign devils. "He Laoba also knows that the guy he made is a sharp weapon against the sky, but if he really puts his sword and gun on the confrontation between the two armies, I'm afraid it won't be used, after all, the range is too close, and the rate of fire is slower than that of the front-loading gun.

"Actually, the most important thing is that this guy is cheap." I also joined the discussion: "Our three treasures are all old men from the American Civil War thirty or forty years ago, and this made the British pit thousands of taels of silver." Our flying thunder cannon is just a few iron bucket angle iron shelves, and if you use some cooked copper bars to hoop it in the sky, even if it is a hundred rounds of explosives and a firing * medicine bag, the cost is only fifty taels of silver, and the three cannons can be exchanged for hundreds of flying thunder cannons. Moreover, this thing can run with two people on the shelf, and it can be hit with the adjustment screws installed, and they may not be able to understand what kind of weapon it is when the shelf is dismantled and placed in front of the enemy. ”

"It's a good thing, why don't we try the cannon. Don't say it's mysterious, when the time comes, you can put two kicks and you will be able to make rice. Xiao Mingfeng was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, so he also stepped in and instigated.

"Cheng, eighth, let them open their eyes." Wei Keren and He Laoba are both from the rivers and lakes, and they can talk very well, and they are standing behind Lao Ba at this time. I also nodded, anyway, there is no one else near the shooting range by Weishan Lake, and it is not impossible to test fire, and the gunner must also familiarize himself with the equipment. Several of He Laoba's apprentices hurriedly put the cannon on the gun emplacement, a huge pit, and when they looked at it from the ground, they couldn't see the barrel of the cannon at all. A periscope stretched out, and the location of the target from a hundred and fifty meters away was quickly clarified. It was an adobe house with two sheep and a few chickens in it, and in the hole behind the house drove in a fat pig of more than 300 catties that the cooking class had just bought. After clearing the field, we were all in the trenches with binoculars to observe the situation, and a few seconds later there was a dull loud noise, and a bandaged disc-shaped medicine bag flew crookedly into the air, falling to the ground seven or eight meters away from the adobe house at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after just two rolls, it turned into a fireball, and the adobe house flew away like a piece of paper in the smoke. When everyone regained their hearing, they went to the front to take a closer look, the fifty catties of medicine bags were really domineering, the foundation of the adobe house was less than half a meter left, and the two sheep inside flew to a distance of more than ten meters, and they were blown apart, and none of the chickens in a cage were spared, all of them turned into dust, chicken feathers, and it seemed that there was no hope for the chicken to stew mushrooms. As for the second senior brother of Bajie in the tunnel, there are no scars on his body, but the seven orifices are bleeding and have no breath, and he was obviously shocked to death. Fifteen meters away from the explosion point, an old elm tree of more than 30 centimeters was actually broken in two by the air waves, and the stubble of the white flowers gave everyone a new understanding of the power of the explosives pack.

"If there is no tunnel or stone wall cover, a radius of about 30 meters is a killing radius, which is not inferior to the 75 howitzer. But the shock wave of this shell is more domineering than a grenade, and it is either dead or crippled within ten meters. Not counting the range, it's a good thing. Wu Luzhen no longer has the contempt he had at the beginning, but he looks a little lonely, too, a tin bucket is better than the god of war who studied in the East for two years, and the gap in this really makes Wu Luzhen a little difficult to accept.

"Shouqing, in fact, a black cat and a white cat are good cats when they catch mice. This flying thunder cannon is earth, but our insurance regiment is not a regular army after all, if it is equipped with a large number of heavy firearms, it will inevitably attract the covetousness of outsiders, but without enough fire support, it will be difficult to save the lives of the brothers, so we have to come up with this soil method. But this is just a transition, and sooner or later you will have access to the most advanced artillery in the world. When the time comes, one man will command him one hundred and ten cannons, and when he sees the enemy, he will bombard him as a scumbag. "I can't let the only general who has drunk foreign ink be depressed, so hurry up and enlighten him.

"That is, what can pull out pus is a good plaster. Now we have just set up the stage, and when we start singing the big show, we won't worry about no one sending money to do the guys' business. Right. "Wei Keren is an old fritter, so he naturally saw what I meant, and everyone discussed the configuration of the flying thunder cannon for a while. For the sake of secrecy, I only allowed the machine tool factory to produce thirty planes, in fact, if needed, the machine tool factory can provide no less than three hundred in a week, but my gunpowder reserves are insufficient, and the chemical plant is still at the workshop stage.

"Report, the Yizhou government sent someone to ask for help, this is an official letter." A sentry ran over to report. I saw that it turned out to be a giant bandit Liu Laoqi in the Mengshan area who led people to kidnap the young master lamb of more than a dozen large households in Yizhou Prefecture, and the big households made trouble in the state capital, and the three classes of officials in the state capital did not even dare to come out of the state capital, and in desperation the Yizhou Prefecture reported to Jinan, Lao Yuan really didn't treat me as an outsider, and simply forwarded the official * document to me, and sent this errand to the insurance group.

"Looks like it's alive again." Xiao Mingfeng rubbed his hands and scratched his ears and cheeks, so that several detachment leaders had an expression of wanting to be happy, but several other detachments had already gone out on missions many times, and together with Wu Luzhen's former detachment, which was a recruit, he had also attacked the county seat of Shanxian. Only his rear detachment has more recruits, and Xiao Mingfeng himself is still learning command with Du Zicheng, so he has been serving as a garrison detachment. I also noticed Xiao Mingfeng's mood, and after thinking about it a little, I ordered Du Zicheng's left detachment and Xiao Mingfeng's rear detachment to go out together, He Laoba and Wei Keren stayed in the Zhongxing mining area and held Yanjube hostage, and Wu Luzhen stayed in Juye and controlled Caozhou Mansion remotely. Our troop route was from the Zhongxing Mine through Qufu and Surabaya through Baima Pass to the northern foot of Mengshan Mountain, a journey of more than 300 miles, and it would take about five or six days for pure infantry to move, but now there are more than 60 carts on the mine, plus the mule and horse carts collected by the surrounding county governments, we can make up enough for 120 carts. Three days later, at dawn, more than 200 infantry of the insurance regiment rushed to the battlement village in the north of Mengshan, rested for a while, and immediately sent out troops as a whole and marched towards Mengshan.

"Door master, the weather is good today, why don't you go to Fei County to step on the plate and kill the fat pig?" A knife man with a plaster on his head was drinking tea in the righteous hall and chattering with a black-faced man in the main seat. "It's been half a month, and the lords of Mengyin and Fei County haven't even let out a fart, and the brothers should go down the mountain to beat the grass valley, otherwise the old man will squat in this valley and eat and pull, and he will not be able to hold the shares after sleeping."

"That's what I said, ah, master, do you think we should simply divide the army into two ways, you and Shi Hong and they will go to Ju County in the east, and I and the third * will go to Fei County, and we will be limited to half a month, how about it?" The black-faced man was also a little unable to sit still, and he was working with the master.

"What the master of the door said is very true, but the old man's legs and feet have not been very convenient recently, so let's do it, Shi Hong's child is still stable, let him and the bolt take thirty brothers to scan and listen, and the old man will arrange next year's work in the village, and you can do it yourself." The master is a white-bearded old school teacher, don't look at this guy's kind eyebrows, gentle tone, and smiling speech, but this guy was also a famous nest and human trafficker in Yizhou Mansion back then, and there were no less than 50 lawsuits in his hands alone. Liu Laoqi turned out to be a fragrant master of the White Lotus Sect, but he was a character who ate and drank, fortunately, the foreign kung fu under his hands was passable, plus he was bold, and he also attracted a few righteous brothers, the grass platform team had just started the gong, and he almost didn't exchange the knife and gun for dry food in the past few years, but with the addition of the master, he did a few big deals, recruited troops and bought horses and broke away from the White Lotus Sect, and gradually developed into the largest bandit nest in Yizhou Mansion. The three protectors of wealth and a group of disciples, in addition to more than ten hidden piles planted in the surrounding counties, plus more than 6,000 family members and friends, the forty miles of land around Wanghailou have almost become an independent kingdom. Recently, seeing that the Boxer Rebellion in northern Lu is imminent, the White Lotus Sect in southwest Lu has gathered to eat big households, and the master also thinks that it is time to make a ruthless profit, so he and Liu Laoqi discussed together with them to take advantage of the students of Yizhou Mansion to go to Qufu to sacrifice Kong, tied up more than ten young masters of large families, and extorted money separately, don't you know that there are nephews of the prefect of Yizhou Prefecture and the pro-branch disciples of the provincial superintendent, and now Yizhou Mansion is also determined to eradicate this giant thief, so there is a process of inviting soldiers to the provincial government, I didn't expect that Lao Yuan was tearing up with the Qingliu officials in the court for the sake of Lubei's affairs, how could he have the heart to care about the trivial matter of this bandit bandit, so he simply pushed it to Cao Yan's insurance group after the bandits, which was exactly what I wanted.

In peacetime, it is better to practice martial arts and train soldiers for a thousand days, so it is better to go into battle and fight once. It's easy to have an opportunity to train remotely, so naturally the rear detachment, which is dominated by new recruits, will be pulled out. I look at the rear detachment that is already a strong fighting spirit, it seems that I really didn't choose the wrong person, the five-character mantra of "go to fight, eat, live and hide" in later generations, at least these boys' leg kung fu has not passed, hehe, Mengshan, the natural oxygen of the beautiful mountains and rivers, you have to let these recruits have a good experience.